This is a serious issue. Without reverse IP its not possible to send email without using a third party relay. Even if the droplet is not used a mailserver, being able to send emails is often critical even if its just to get notifications from cron tasks.

Hey, I know you guys are already very busy working your asses off to provide us this awesome service and I'm very thankful for that, but if it helps to somewhat prioritize your tasks a little bit more, then I would like to add my concerns to this issue as well :).

You can set setup PTRs on the regular IP assigned only to the machine by changing the machine's hostname to what the PTR record should be. The only difference is this IP is associated with that VM forever whereas a floating IP can be re-assigned.

It seems Gmail is no longer accepting emails from a server without a valid PTR, which you cannot get with a floating ip at DigitalOcean, so you either have a PTR or have the failback options offered by the floating ip, but not both. What a shame.

When will this be addressed, if at all? It's been almost two years since the only official response here. Can we please at least get someone from DO to respond here with whether or not this is even in the pipeline for implementation sometime?